telfer

[ tel-fer ]

noun, adjective, verb (used with object)

Other words from telfer

  • tel·fer·age, noun

Words Nearby telfer

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How to use telfer in a sentence

  • When he got home he found Mary telfer keeping his sister company.

    The Squire's Daughter | Silas K(itto) Hocking
  • He would now be enabled to confound telfer, one of the most learned of the Society's members, by the evidence of his spade work.

    Border Ghost Stories | Howard Pease
  • telfer said that I ought to have a man with me; one is not supposed to go about here alone; so he detailed a man.

    At Ypres with Best-Dunkley | Thomas Hope Floyd
  • A few yards behind were the wiring party; so I whispered a word or two to Kerr and telfer.

    At Ypres with Best-Dunkley | Thomas Hope Floyd
  • Not nice to hear Huggo's loud, delighted laughter at everything addressed to him by telfer.

    This Freedom | A. S. M. Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for telfer

telfer

/ (ˈtɛlfə) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of telpher

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